Posts Tagged ‘Reuters’
April 6th, 2011
Cuba has
accused a Reuters journalist of collaborating with a US diplomat thought to be a CIA agent. The allegation was made by Cuban state television through a programme “dedicated to uncovering supposed plots against Cuba”.
Dissident
Raul Capote claims that he witnessed a meeting between then Reuters bureau chief Anthony Boadle and Mark Sullivan, who was a diplomat in the US Interests Section in Havana. He was
accused of being a CIA agent in the programme.
April 4th, 2011
Syrian authorities have
released Reuters photographer Khaled al-Hariri. The Syrian national had been
held for six days. He was arrested as he reached his Damascus workplace last Monday. Three
other Reuters journalists have also been
detained this week, but they have been
released and forced to leave the country.
March 31st, 2011
Reuters has
announced that two of their reporters are missing in Syria. Jordanian correspondent, Suleiman al Khalidi, was detainted by the Syrian authorities on Tuesday, while Syrian photographer, Khaled al Hariri, has been out of contact since Monday. The disappearances follow the
detention of two of Reuters television journalists who were
released by the Syrian authorities on Monday and expelled to Lebanon. Editor in chief Stephen Adler has expressed his concern for the whereabouts of Khalidi and Hariri and has stated “We call upon the Syrian authorities to help us urgently in ensuring their safe and timely release.”
August 14th, 2009
Five of the six journalists sentenced to two years in prison for sedition and defamation against the government in Zambia have been moved to a northern prison. This included Pap Saine, the Reuters correspondent who is suffering from a heart condition but has not been allowed to go to Senegal for the pacemaker operation. The sixth journalist Sarata Jabba-Dibba has not been moved to the northern prison, but has had her seven month old baby, which she is still breastfeeding taken away from her. Read more here
July 1st, 2009
Reuters photographer Ibrahim Jassam has been on hunger strike for four days protesting his continued detainment by US forces in Iraq. Media watchdogs have urged Iraq’s government to end harassment and intimidation of journalists and are pushing for his release. Read more
here
